Watering-trough.



No. 65I,877. Patented lune I9, |900. J. J. McCABTHY.

WATERING THOUGH.

(Application led Oct. 16, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNTED STATES PATENT Omen.

JOHN J. MocAR'rHY, or cincAeo, ILLrNoIs, AssIGNoR To ADELBERT n. cLrZBE, oF' SAME PLACE.

WATER'ING-TROUGH.

srcr'F'roArroN forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,877, dated June 19, 190e. Application filed October 16, 1899;` Serial 110.733.710. (No model.)

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. MGCAR'IHY, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in Watering- Troughs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention has relation to that class of watering-troughs, more particularly designed for watering stock, in which `the trough is pivotally sustained and provided with suitable means whereby when the trough is full of water the supply from the tank or reservoir will be automatically cut off and whereby when the supply of water within the trough is materially reduced the trough will tip and automatically open the valve to permit water to again flow into'the trough to fill it.

The invention contemplates improved mech anism intermediate the trough and the supply-controlling valve for operating said valve and contemplates also improved means for suspending the trough.

The invention consists in the features' of improvement hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure l is a view in central vertical section on line a: oc of Fig. 2 through a wateringtrough and spout embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section on line jr/y of Fig. l. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the valve-operating lever.

A designates a delivery pipe or spout that will be connected with a tank, reservoir, or other suitable source of supply, the spout A being shown as provided with a screw threaded portion entering the wall B of the tank or support and securely held therein by its threads and, if desired, also by retainingnuts b. The free end of the pipe or spout A is bent downwardly, and, as shown, is formed with lateraliianges a at its lower end, these flanges being perforated to receive a throughbolt C, whereby the tank D is suspended, as will presently more fully appear. The inner end of the pipe or spout A is formed with a valve-seat a', against the inner face of which will bear the valve E, preferably of rubber,

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leather, or like material, the valve E being shown as held in position upon the valve-rod E by means of a washereand the nuts e' and e2, that engage thev threaded end of the valvestem E' at opposite sides of the valve. The forward end of the valve-stem E is bent downwardly, as at e3, and enters a hole f in the rearwardly-extending upper end of the operating-lever F, the body of the Vlever F being formed with holes f', through which passes the through-bolt C. As shown, the operating-lever F is an elbow-lever and its lower rearwardly-extending arm is formed with a slot f2, through which passes the headed retaining-bolt C. The bolt G passes through a hole formed in the rearward extension D' ofthe tank D and through a hole formed in the forwardly-extending arm h of the counterbalance-weight H, the upwardlyextending body of the weight H being formed with an opening h', through which the pipe The lower threaded end of the bolt G is iitted with a retaining-nut g, that holds the several parts in position. Preferably the rearward extension D of the trough is formed with ribs d2, between which fits the lower 'arm ofthe operating-lever F.

The weight of the trough D and of the counterbalance-weight H is such that when the trough D is suspended from the spout, as shown in the drawings, and is lled with water the trough will occupy the depressed position shown in Fig. l', being tilted downward about the pivot-bolt C. The downward tilting of the trough D causes the operating-lever F to draw forwardly the valve-rod E', thereby causing the valve E to close against the valve-seat ot', of the spout A. If now, however, water be withdrawn from the trough D a sufficient extent, the weight H will cause the trough D to move upward in the direction ot' the arrow, Fig. l, and by this movement of the trough the operating-lever F will force rearwardly the valve-rod E', thereby moving the valve E from its seat and permitting the water to flow through the spout and into the trough D, until the trough is again turned downward to the position shown, when the water-supply to the trough will again be cut 0E. My object in adj ustably connecting the operating-lever F to the trough is to enable IOO the trough and the weight H to bel moved.

slightly forward or backward in order to aceurately balance the parts, and it will be seen that by setting the bolt G at different positions along the slotted lower arm of the can be readily effec-ted.

found particularly advantageous when the I trough is made of cast metal, since it willenable any variations in the weight of the cast? ing to be readily compensated for.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a spout having a j valve-seat near its inner end and having its discharge end provided With'a pivot, avalve l opposite said valve-seat, a valve-rod leading zo from said Valve to the outer endofsaid spout,

an operating-lever engaging said valve-rod and pivoted to the disch-arge end of said spout, and a pivoted `counterbalanced trough s uspended from said spout and Wherebysaid op- 2 5 erating-lever is shifted to eect the opening and closing of said valves. 2. The combination of a spout having a, valve-seat near its inner end and having its g having its upper end attached to said valve rod, and a counterbalanced trough connected to the lower arm of said elbow-lever.

3. The combination of a spout having a valve-seat near its inner end and having its discharge end turned downwardlya valve opposite sa-id valve-seat, a valve-rod 'leading from said valve-seat to the outer end of said spout, an operating-lever pivotally connected ,to the downwardly-turned end of said spout and having its upper end attached to said valve-rod and a oo unterbalanced trough ad- Having thus described my invention, what justably connected to the lower end of said operati'ngQlever.

` 4. The combination -of a spout having a valve-seat near its free end and having its discharge endV turned downwardly, -a valve opposite said Vvalve-seat, a valve-rod leading from said valve-seat to the outer end of said spout, an velbow-lever pivotalgly connected to the downwardlyturned end of ,said spout and having its upper end attached to said valverod and having its lower armslo-.tteia counterbalanced trough provided with a rearward extension, a weight connectedV to said rearward extension kof said trough and a throughbolt passing through thezslotted lower arm of dischargeY end turned downwardly, a valve 3o opposite said valve-seat, a valve-rod leading 5 from said valve-seat to the outer end of ,said yi spout, an .elbow-lever pivotally connected to l' the `do wnwardly-turned end of said spo-ut and Saidelbow lever and through said trough leX- tension and Said weight.

l JOHN J McGART-HY. Witnesses:

GEO. P.F1sHnnJr., ALBERTA ADAMI-CK. 

